Back on prompt for Day 15: https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fifteen-9/.
Day 15
National Poetry Writing Month 2022, Day 15
My Day 15 poem, based on the prompt at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fifteen-8/, brought out my inner curmudgeon.
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 15
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 15 is to ‘write a poem inspired by your favorite kind of music. Try to recreate the sounds and timing of a pop ballad, a jazz improvisation, or a Bach fugue. That could mean incorporating refrains, neologisms and flights of whimsy, or repeating/inverting lines or ideas – whatever your chosen musical form would seem to require!’ I’ve been listening to a lot of early Orb lately, so… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #15 (pt. 2)
Here is my Day 15 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: a dramatic monologue. I don’t know if my poem counts, but it’s a true story, and it really did feel like a scene from a Japanese drama.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #15 (pt. 1)
Here is my poem for Day 15 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: a poem in which half the lines, including the last line, are borrowed from a book or long magazine article. (https://chrisjarmick.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/napowrimo-prompts-for-april-15-and-april-16-plus-some-prompt-poems/)
I chose excerpts from the Bill Nelson interview in issue 1.2 (Indian Summer 1993) of Fond Affexxions. (I hate Etsy, but there is a copy listed for sale there, if you want to take a look: https://www.etsy.com/listing/174753303/fond-affexxions-magazine-fanzine-no-12.) Lines 1, 3, 5 (after the ‘and’), 7, 9, and 12 are taken from the interview. I particularly liked the phrase I used for the last line, so I made sure to keep it, even though it meant ending the poem with a huge non-sequitur.
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 15
For Day 15, I again deviate slightly from the Napowrimo.net prompt, which is to write a poem ‘in which a villain faces an unfortunate situation, and is revealed to be human (but still evil).’
I was going to try to work with it, remembering a bit Robert Klein once did about how even the worst Nazi could still have a soft spot for a puppy—but then I read that Hitler had his people test the cyanide Eva Braun eventually took on his German shepherd (her dogs were subsequently shot), so I gave up on that idea, instead looking at a more contemporary variety of villain…
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 15
My day 15 poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write ‘a poem that reflects being in the middle of something.’ Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #15 (April 15, 2014)
Today’s NaPoWriMo.net prompt was giving me fits. The ottava rima that was last year’s Day 8 prompt worked out well, as it coincided with news of the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. For some reason, though, attempting a terza rima just had me encountering trite sentences and dead-end rhymes.
So, I decided to switch tack, and go with the 15th item on the list of prompts at PoeWar:
Write a tanka. Feel free to write more than one if you like.
Ordinary Average Thoughts 